1 Preliminary Note
In this tutorial I use the hostname
server1.example.com with the IP address
192.168.0.100. These settings might differ for you, so you have to replace them where appropriate.
2 Installing MySQL 5.0
First we install MySQL 5.0 like this:
apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
Create a password for the MySQL user
root (replace
yourrootsqlpassword with the password you want to use):
mysqladmin -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
Then check with
netstat -tap | grep mysql
on which addresses MySQL is listening. If the output looks like this:
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdo:mysql *:* LISTEN 2713/mysqld
which means MySQL is listening on
localhost.localdomain only, then you're safe with the password you set before. But if the output looks like this:
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 2713/mysqld
you should set a MySQL password for your hostname, too, because otherwise anybody can access your database and modify data:
mysqladmin -h server1.example.com -u root password yourrootsqlpassword
3 Installing Lighttpd
Lighttpd is available as a Debian package, therefore we can install it like this:
apt-get install lighttpd
Now direct your browser to
http://192.168.0.100, and you should see the Lighttpd placeholder page:
Lighttpd's default document root is
/var/www on Debian, and the configuration file is
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.
4 Installing PHP5
We can make PHP5 work in Lighttpd through FastCGI. Fortunately, Debian provides a FastCGI-enabled PHP5 package which we install like this:
apt-get install php5-cgi
5 Configuring Lighttpd And PHP5
To enable PHP5 in Lighttpd, we must modify two files,
/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini and
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. First we open
/etc/php5/cgi/php.ini and add the line
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 right at the end of the file:
vi /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini
[...]
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
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Then we open
/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf and add
"mod_fastcgi", to the
server.modules stanza:
vi /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
[...]
server.modules = (
"mod_access",
"mod_alias",
"mod_accesslog",
"mod_fastcgi",
# "mod_rewrite",
# "mod_redirect",
# "mod_status",
# "mod_evhost",
# "mod_compress",
# "mod_usertrack",
# "mod_rrdtool",
# "mod_webdav",
# "mod_expire",
# "mod_flv_streaming",
# "mod_evasive"
)
[...]
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and then right at the end of the file, we add the following stanza:
[...]
fastcgi.server = ( ".php" => ((
"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php5-cgi",
"socket" => "/tmp/php.socket"
)))
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Then we restart Lighttpd:
/etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
Reference :
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Debian Etch
